Shock Jock Suspended for Gross Comments About City Council Speaker
Curtis Sliwa, a radio host and all-purpose “personality,” has been suspended from his regular commentating gig on New York 1 because he can’t stop telling the public about how badly he wants to have...
View ArticleSyrian opposition, activists report chemical attack in Idlib
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syrian activist groups on Wednesday reported another suspected chemical attack in the northwestern province of Idlib, with one group tweeting that a dozen people were...
View ArticleUN wants Libya political agreement by Ramadan
The United Nations envoy on Libya said Wednesday the Security Council wants to see a political agreement on Libya before Ramadan, which begins in the middle of June, but he says he cannot be optimistic...
View ArticleWill Texas outlaw red-light cameras?
Arlington voters will weigh in on red-light cameras May 9. State lawmakers will again hear arguments to turn the cameras off....
View ArticleSyrian opposition, activists report chemical attack in Idlib
Syrian activist groups on Wednesday reported another suspected chemical attack in the northwestern province of Idlib, with one group tweeting that a dozen people were "suffocating."...
View ArticleWho’s Winning, Who’s Losing After CAA Defections
The mass defection in April of top CAA agents to UTA has sent a ripple effect through the Hollywood agency world. CAA’s loss has been UTA’s gain, but numerous other power pieces have moved on the...
View ArticleTen Men Sentenced to Life in Prison for Shooting of Malala Yousafzai
A Pakistani court has sentenced ten men to life in prison for the attempted assassination in 2012 of Malala Yousafzai. All ten men are affiliated with the Pakistani arm of the Taliban. Yousafzai was...
View ArticlePolygamous Marriage Is Linked To Higher Rates Of Literal Heartache For Husbands
By: Tia Ghose Published: April 28, 2015 06:39pm ET on LiveScience. Having more than one wife may cause some serious heartache. Men who are polygamous face more than quadruple the risk of having blocked...
View ArticleExperts Weigh In On Chipotle's GMO Foods Ban
By: Tanya Lewis Published: April 29, 2015 04:53pm ET on LiveScience. Chipotle's decision to prepare only food that does not contain genetically modified ingredients is adding fuel to an ongoing debate...
View ArticleIs Your Plantar Fasciitis Pain Not Going Away? It's Probably Not Plantar...
Doctors trying to get to the bottom of a person's heel pain may inadvertently cause their patients more injury if an examination doesn’t include an ultrasound, according to a new study. It's estimated...
View ArticleThree Babies' Lives Saved With 3D-Printed Device Designed To Change Shape...
By: Charles Q. Choi Published: April 29, 2015 01:51pm ET on LiveScience. Three baby boys with life-threatening breathing problems are alive today thanks to a 4D biomaterial, a medical implant designed...
View ArticleNorth Korean diplomats cause chaos at UN event on rights
A U.S.-organized event on North Korea's human rights briefly turned into chaos at the U.N. Thursday as North Korean diplomats insisted on reading a statement, amid shouts from defectors, and then...
View ArticleAngry Anti-Choice Pol Wants to 'Set Myself on Fire' Over Abortion
Oklahoma State Representative Kevin Calvey, a Republican from Oklahoma City, struggled recently to find the perfect way to express just how much he hates abortion. He managed it, spectacularly: by...
View ArticleJPMorgan Sues to Prevent Transfer of $19.4 Million Condo at Time Warner Center
JPMorgan Chase wants to seize the condo as a partial payment for a $90 million award against an Indian real estate developer, who denies owning the property. br clear='all'/...
View ArticleFemale Scientists Told to Get a Man to Help Them With Their Paper
This just in from the land of great sexism: two female scientists had a manuscript rejected by a peer-reviewed journal because they didn’t ask a man for help. An unnamed peer reviewer for the journal...
View ArticleNorth Korean diplomats provoke shouting match at UN
A U.S.-organized event on North Korea’s human rights briefly turns into chaos at the U.N. as North Korean diplomats insist on reading a statement of protest, amid shouts from defectors. The North...
View ArticleGlobal Cancer Death Rates Appear To Be On The Decline
By: Rachael Rettner Published: April 29, 2015 09:00am ET on LiveScience. The rate of deaths from cancer appears to be declining worldwide, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed information from...
View ArticleUN is warned of 'active Iranian nuclear procurement network'
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Britain has told a U.N. panel of experts that it is aware of an "active Iranian nuclear procurement network" linked to two Iranian companies, raising new concerns as world powers...
View ArticleTexas Senate OK’s sales tax holiday for guns and ammo
A proposal to let Texas hunters shop sales-tax free before hunting season gets approval in the upper chamber....
View Article'Don't Denounce our Pain as Savage'
From Amandla Stenberg, one of the stars of the Hunger Games series, who’s just 16 and already much smarter than damn near all of the media covering the protests and rioting in Baltimore: Read more......
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